Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Sixteen-year-old Leo has a way with words, but he doesn’t know
it yet. He spends his time texting, polishing soccer maneuvers, and killing
time with Niko and Silvia. Until a new teacher arrives and challenges him to
give voice to his dreams.

And so Leo is inspired to win over the red-haired beauty
Beatrice. She doesn’t know Leo exists, but he’s convinced that his dream will
come true. When Leo lands in the hospital and learns that Beatrice has been
admitted too, his mission to be there for her will send him on a thrilling but
heartbreaking journey. He wants to help her but doesn’t know how—and his dream
of love will force him to grow up fast.

Having already sold over a million copies, Alessandro
D’Avenia’s debut novel is considered Italy’s The Fault in Our Stars. Now
available in English for the first time, this rich, funny, and heartwarming
coming-of-age tale asks us to explore the meaning—and the cost—of friendship,
and shows us what happens when suffering bursts into the world of teenagers and
renders the world of adults speechless.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Alessandro
D’Avenia holds a PhD in Classical Literature, and teaches Ancient Greek, Latin
and Literature at a high school in Milan. White as Silence, Red as Song was his
first novel, published in Italy in 2010. It sold a million copies in Italy, has
been translated into over twenty languages and was released as a film in 2012.
Alessandro has since published four more books, the latest of which, Every
Story is a Love Story, was published in October 2017.

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